Everyone's talking about the PS4. There are details popping up. Dates being announced. Hell, even mock-ups being created. So why don't we take a break from all that, and check out what they used to say about the very first PlayStation? Let's take a look!

"Hook the new Sony PlayStation up to the family TV and watch as the samurai in Battle Arena Toshinden display a fluidity that far outstrips that of the Sega Saturn's Virtua Fighter game. Or strap into a 'starfighter' in Total Eclipse Turbo and zoom through steep ravines rather than along the flat, rolling screens of the old 16-bit game machines."

Laura Evenson: PlayStation Is a Whole New Game; The San Francisco Chronicle, September 9, 1995.

Yeah, take that, Sega. And you too, 16-bit game machines. There's a new sheriff in town.

When they beg you to buy it for them, your kids will tell you that PlayStation is really cool. They'll be right. (...) It has an unusual feature that kids will love: a back-up memory card, which lets you save game statistics even when the machine is turned off.

How different is 32-bit from 16-bit? Totally. The PlayStation alone is capable of generating a variety of wild effects, such as light sourcing, gourand shading, weather, smoke and fog as easily as the sound chips create Dolby Surround Sound.

Graphics are absolutely beautiful, and the game segues from the FMV clips to the actual game-play seamlessly. All I want to know is: why do they call it 'Final Fantasy VII'? If it's really a FINAL fantasy, shouldn't there only be one?